Hoof-pad.



N0. 7l0,999. I Patented Oct. i4, I902.

E. W. POWERS.

HUUF PAD.

(Application filed Jan. 30, 1902.)

(No Model.)

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Witnesse b y fix UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELIAS \V. POIVERS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

HOOF-PAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 710,999, dated October 14, 1902. Application filed January 30,1902. Serial No. 91,831. (No modelfl To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, Plus W. PowERs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Hoof-Pads, (Case No. 3,) of which the following is a full, clear, concise, and exact description.

My invention relates to a hoof-pad, and has for its object to provide an improved resilient pad for use in connection with horseshoes to take up the jar and concussion and prevent slipping, to afford a firm bearing for the hoof, and to give adequate protection to the frog without undue pressure thereon.

I will describe my invention by reference to the accompanying drawings, and the features of construction which I regard as novel will be pointed out in the appended claim.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the under side of my improved pad. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the top; and Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section, this View also showing the cases a plain backing-piece a, of leather or' canvas of the same outline as the pad, is interposed between the sole of the hoof and the top of the pad.

The body portion or face-block is quite thick at the rear, forming a high transverse heel-bar b, and gradually decreases in height toward the toe. The forward part of the face-block is formed into a rib 0, having the characteristic shape of the horseshoe and adapted to fit the inner edge thereof. vThe heel-bar has a frog-shaped extension or tongue I), which projects downwardly some distance below the plane of the rib c-that is to say, the under face of the frog-shaped extension I), which is designed to come under and co incide with the frog of the hoof, is approximately parallel with the top face of the pad instead of sloping toward the toe like the rib c.

A recess (6 is formed'in the central portion of the top face of the pad, as shown in Fig.2, said recess being rounded in shape at the toe, as formed by the rib c, and having a beveled rear wall sloping u pward toward the heel from the point of the frog-shaped tongue I).

The floor (Z of the recess a is a thin diaphragm which fills the crescentshaped space between the tongue I) and the rib c.

I prefer to make'the pad of canvas and rubbcr vulcanized together, the thin portionssuch, for instance, as the door dbeing made of canvas. The thick portions-such as the heel-bar, the tongue I), and the rib cmay be made of alternate layers of canvas and rubber built up and vulcanized together, or they can be made of solid rubber or any other similarresilient substance.

It will be seen that in the pad of my invention the tongue I), which extends well forward and substantially coincides in position with the frog of thehoof, forms asubstantial protection for the point of the frog, while it projects downward, as shown most clearlyin Fig. 3, so that the frog is relieved of pressure at the toe. 'When a canvas or leather back a is used on top of the pad, a pneumatic cushion is formed by the central recess,which takes the jar from the sensitive parts of the hoof, a firm bearing being afforded by the thick transverse heel-bar, the rib c, and the thick resilient tongue I).

In the summer-time the thin canvas portion d between the tongue I) and the rib 0 may be cut away, if desired, in which case the pneumatic feature of the pad will of course be destroyed.

It will be noticed that the forward edges 6 e of the heel-bar are beveled off, so that the three-quarter shoe used with this style of pad may come well back to the heel and prevent the edges of-the heel-bar from being torn away. It may be desired in some cases to cut away the'later'al projectionsff of the heelbar to use the pad with a full shoe, and this may be done without departing from my invention.

The feature to which I attach particular importance is the combination,with a shoe having the rib c, of the thick frog-shaped tongue b,which extends forward and downward from i the heel portion and forms a thick substan extending forward and downward from the IS heel-bar to substantially the center of the space inclosed by said curved rib, the upper surface of the tongue sloping downward from the top face of the pad and the body of said tongue projecting below the plane of the un- 20 der surface of the face-block.

In witness whereof I hereunto subscribe my name this 28th day of January, A. D. 1902.

ELIAS NV. POWERS.

Witnesses:

DE WITT C. TANNER, MATT S. THORNTON. 

